The Orphan (1979)
Today, the all-but-forgotten movie “(Friday The Thirteenth) The Orphan” only rates as a footnote connected to the “Friday The Thirteenth” slasher series, since the producers of that film had to pay the producers of the earlier movie a fee to…
Son of Dracula (1943)
Count Alucard (Dracula spelled backwards) goes to Louisiana to make willing Louise Allbritton his bride. But she has other ideas up her sleeve. Very atmospheric film starts slow but really picks up speed in the middle leading to a great,…
Betrayed – Review
Betrayed is a very intense action, crime, thriller that’s very entertaining. The film won multiple awards and was nominated for many more. It was written and directed by multi award-winning filmmaker Harley Wallen and produced by Harley and his wife Kaiti’s…
R.O.T.O.R. (1987)
To begin with, Richard Gesswein is the worst leading man ever to grace the silver screen. They had to get someone to pull a voice-over for his role, Coldyron (Yeah, that’s a tough name), as well as his leading lady,…
Breeders (1986)
Aliens come to downtown Manhattan and live underground only to come out and victimize virgin girls and impregnate them with alien seed. This movie is rubbish on so many levels. First of all, it is more of a soft core…
Stingray (1978)
Since this thought to be desensitized viewer found himself feeling uneasy while watching this forgotten drive-in movie, I can only imagine what viewers back in the more innocent 1970s thought of it. I will say that the St. Louis locations…
Digging Up the Marrow (2014)
Adam Green, the upstart horror fan boy filmmaker behind Frozen and the Hatchet movies, directs this mockumentary about his love of monsters and how it leads to a strange old man called Decker (Ray Wise of Twin Peaks and Jeepers…
Neon Maniacs (1986)
In San Francisco, Natalie is celebrating her birthday one night in the park with a couple of friends, when suddenly a large group of nasty looking monsters gatecrash it. She’s the only survivor, and the police don’t buy her story,…
Bloodthirsty Butchers (1970)
Bloodthirsty Butchers is z-grade horror director Andy Milligan’s version of Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Working on an extremely small budget, Milligan unwisely attempts to recreate the look and feel of Victorian England and, rather unsurprisingly, fails…
For The Love Of The Drive-in
. Four years ago I was featured in Southwest magazine because I had an idea that the drive-in was about to make a resurgence. As a result of that article I received a ton of calls and email by communities…
Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity (1987)
Obviously there are worse films than this and probably worse films of this bikini beach babes genre but really….. So what do we have here if we strip away the intergalactic clap trap bookends and the superfluous robots and monster?…
Firecracker (1981)
The plot is of secondary importance: something about a female karate champion who goes to the Phillipines to investigate her sister’s disappearance and stumbles on a drug ring and a tournament of no-holds-barred fights to the death. The film is…
National Lampoon
National Lampoon once was a household name when it came to comedy, however it’s been quite awhile since there’s been a memorable movie made by them. While National Lampoonies are still quoting the classic lines from movies decades ago, it…
White Slave (1985)
White Slave starts off looking like it’s going to be a really lame pastiche of Cannibal Holocaust, what with an opening montage of the Amazon set to ho-hum music imitating Riz Ortolani’s famous score for that other film. And actually…
Breaker Beauties (1977)
Made by a talented guy from mainstream entertainment dabbling in porn, BREAKER BEAUTIES would fall in the good ole boy genre of the ’70s if it weren’t XXX (and thus pigeonholed as Adult). It’s entertaining if unexceptional. R. Bolla (his…
Bamboo Gods and Iron Men (1974)
The Jeffersons’ honeymoon night in Hong Kong will be troubled by a number of people wishing to get hold of a Buddha statuette that the husband offered her when window-shopping that day. When the going gets rough, it helps that…
Hangup (1974)
A Los Angeles detective tries to destroy the drug dealer responsible for his girlfriend’s addiction. Released by Warner Bros. as “Hangup”; re-released by Dimension Pictures as “Super Dude.” Obscure. (Josiah Howard; “Blaxploitation Cinema: The Essential Reference Guide.”
Nightwing (1979)
This adaptation of the Martin Cruz Smith novel (scripted by Steve Shagan, Bud Shrake, and Smith himself) is actually pretty faithful to the source material. Ultimately, it’s not quite as satisfying as Smiths’ story, where the characters were given more…
No Way Back (1976)
And not a very good one at that. A black private detective (played by Fred Williamson) must track down a married middle aged guy who is planning to elope to South America with a younger girl and two million dollars…
Penitentiary II (1982)
The second film in Jamaa Fanaka’s trilogy has Too Sweet (Leon Isaac Kennedy) out of prison and living with his sister. He tries getting a new relationship going with a young lady but she’s brutally murdered by the gangster Half…